Elizabeth Warren wants to turn the internet into a literal sewer (service)
Summary
Maybe it will be forced to offer a menu of all available apps in all categories (like the famously useless browser ballot screen demanded by the European Commission in its Microsoft antitrust case)? If you think Google will continue to invest in and maintain the wealth of services it offers today on the strength of the profits derived from those search results, well, Elizabeth Warren is probably already your favorite politician. It beggars belief that anyone thinks consumers would benefit by forcing technology companies into their own silos, ensuring that the most powerful sources of competition for each other are confined to their own fiefdoms by order of law. The real story, as the founders of Diapers.com freely admitted , is that they sold diapers as what they hoped would be a loss leader, intending to build out sales of other products once they had a base of loyal customers: Ironically, this also implies that larger firms, which can better afford the additional resources required to sustain exponential growth, are a crucial part of the solution , not the problem.